Chain-tightener.



O. H. PETERSON.

CHAIN TIGHTENEB. APPLICATION FILED MAR. a, 1909 wanted Sept. 14,1909.

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CHARLES H. PETERSON, 0F WESTBROOK, MAINE.

CHAIN-TIGHTENEB;

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept. 14, 1909.

Application filed March 6, 1909. Serial N0. 431,771.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, CI-IARLESI'I. Pn'rnnsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at lvestbrook, in the county of Climber and and State of Maine, have invented new and useful Improvements in Chein-Tighteners, of which the following, is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in chain tighteners and more particularly to a device especially adapted to skid chains used on automobiles.

Its object is to provide a simple, inexpensive device adapted to easily and quickly tighten the chains and which, whenv not in use, can be folded up so that the hooks on the ends are protected. p

It also relates too. certain details of construction hereinafter described and more fully claimed.

In the drawings herewith accompanying and making part ofthis application, Figure 1 :1 plan view of my improved tightencr and Fig. 2 1s a similar View showing its apphcation.

In said drawings A representsone of the device is shut up, it covers the hook B and if desired, it maybe provided with a coiipcrating hook I. The two members are piv oted side by side and when shut up lie in the same plane in such way that all the hooks are in Fig. 1. v

The operation of my improved chain protected as shown by dotted lines tightencr is illustrated in Fig. 2 in which'is shown the usual anti-skid chain J and a rubber tire K. The hooks B :inl G are insorted in the'l-inks L at some distance apart. The free end'oi' the member A is then used as a lever to draw the ends of the chain together, the members pivotin g'on the pivot bar E, the position of the pivot relatiie to the tighten the anti-- hooks affording a long reach when necesare turned so that the hooks I and B project toward eachother when these books may be used. When not in .use the tool can be folded into the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1.

The advantages of my improved tightener are that it is simple, inexpensive, combining in a single tool means or tightening the chain a greater or less amount as desired and when not in use can be conveniently folded so as to occupy the least possible space in the toolbox and offering no sharp points to injure the tool box or its contents. Having thus described my invention and its use I claim Y Y 1. In a chain tighten'er, two members pivoted together intermediate the ends of one of them, the adjacent sides being parallel ithroughout their entire extent, one provided width a hook on its free end and the other its free end and the other with a, hook on' each end, the two members adapted to shut one over the other, either of said hooks being adapted to cooperate with the hook on. the 3 first named member. v

3. In a chain tightens-r, two members pivoted together intermediate their ends, one provided with a hook on its end, andvthe other provided with books on either end extending in opposite directions. v In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification in presence oftw'o subscribing Witnesses this twenty-seventh day of February, 1909.

CHARLES H. PETERSON.

in presence of- Enonv Vnnninn,

li lARION Riel-mains.- 

